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Re:Announcing “Exploring ES6” by nacs on Saturday June 13, 2015 @04:30PM (#9712529)
Looks to be a great book.

I'm curious what the motivation is for some authors lately to make the whole book available free while making it available for sale?

Does it help with publicity or anything or is this mostly a gesture of generosity?

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Re:Announcing “Exploring ES6” by feketegy on Sunday June 14, 2015 @09:56AM (#9714890)
It's the equivalent of open-source, but for knowledge.

It's like: "Here's the content for free, if you like it, support it by buying the ebook"

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Re:Announcing “Exploring ES6” by avtar on Saturday June 13, 2015 @04:39PM (#9712566)
I don't know how common this is but I've bought Kindle versions of several publicly available books after being able to spend some time reading them.
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